In this next screen, you are being asked to select ports you intend on using. The second tickbox is left unchecked because we want to safely connect to the network. So, we want to just start it up when we find it convenient.

Having eMule load up on startup can cause startup times to increase by a second or so. You’ll also want to leave both tickboxes on this screen unchecked. The username will appear when users connect to you either for the purpose of uploading and downloading from your shared folder. By default, this is the website URL for the eMule webpage, but you can name this anything you want. In the above image, you can select a user name in the text box. Like the screen says, click “Next” to continue. The first screen will look something like this: This will automatically start only on the first time you start up eMule. when you first launch the program, you’ll be guided through a wizard that will help you configure the client. The difference is that the binaries requires you to unzip and place into a folder you’ll refer to for future use of this program.Įither have the installer launch the program or double-click on the emule.exe file to start the program. You can use the easy to use installer or you can download the binaries. Simply head over to the website and click onto the download section. This guide will show you how to connect to both. Unlike the ED2K network, though, Kad is a fully decentralized network that merely requires connecting to other peers to gain access to the network.

Meanwhile, Kad is a network that is also connectable via eMule.

The servers merely help hold the network together. It is a centralized file-sharing network that requires users to connect to a server to gain access to the network. The ED2K network has been around since 2000 and is still in use today. In this guide, we discuss how to connect to and use the eDonkey2000 (ED2K) and Kademlia (Kad) networks using the file-sharing program eMule.

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